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Bobby Fischer Online?
talilee writes "This story from AP (but I found it at SFGate.com) suggests that Bobby Fischer is playing online chess anonymously against champion level players. I'm glad to see that he has an opportunity to express his genius without having to deal with the overwhelming attention (and without exposing his, um, "eccentricities".)" The BBC has a slightly more informative story.
This should give you some background info on Fischer and his "eccentricities."
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The real Raunchola isn't cool enough to have any imposters
I find it hard to understand how someone who has been interested in chess for the length of time you claim to have been, can be ignorant of Bobby Fischer, one of the greatest players of all time.
Bobby was the youngest International Grandmaster ever. He won 8 US Chess Championships, and won basically every game he played between 1962 and 1972.
Unfortunately, he has become a reclusive paranoid schizophrenic who rants about how the Jews and Russians are out to get him (it should be noted that Bobby is half-Jewish).
By the way, in the future, perhaps you should try Google for queries like this.
If you have a problem with my views, REPLY, don't moderate!
It is really depressing to see that Bobby Fischer finally went over the edge mentally. In 1999 he accused Jews of causing all of his problems. Here is a transcript of the radio interview where he first talked about it.
So climate's changing. So what? It has always changed. The big news would be if it wasn't changing. - Dr. Philip Stone
2 points for a win, 1 for a tie, 0 for a loss.
If the opponent WON all 4 games, the score would have been 8-0.
Championship chess normally has lots of draws.
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
I'd guess that he wanted to throw Short off (it sounds like that game was the first), and possibly get him to be careless, and also to make 8 quick moves at the beginning, saving his time for later. Also, while they're lousy moves to start with, they don't lead to any obvious attacks, so Short probably didn't have time to figure out how to take advantage of his ability to develop an attack without being bothered.
Here are his games, move by move.
As you can see, he brings his king to the center of his board. Very wierd.
Umm, no.
That's 1 point for a win, 1/2 for a tie, 0 for a loss.
This is an EX-PARROT!
No really, it's me. Send me an e-mail if you like. I've been reading /. for a long time. I was taking networking seriously long before chess.
Actually I was only going to post the first paragraph of that, which is from my article that went up at KasparovChess yesterday, and the link, but my mouse ran amok in my sleep-deprived, sunburned state and I clicked submit. Really.
Anyway, here's the link to the full article. Only the last bit is about Fischer.
KasparovChess article about Fischer online.